Jones v. State

Webb, Judge.

The Department of Human Resources, successor agency to the Department of Family and Children Services (Ga. L. 1972, pp. 1015, 1046, ch. 12), operates regional youth development centers to provide, inter alia, juvenile courts a place for detaining juveniles prior to their adjudication in juvenile court. The Macon Regional Youth Development Center is located in Bibb County and serves the counties of Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Macon, Peach, Lamar and Upson. Roy Jones, appellant here, is employed by the department as assistant director of the Macon center.

In October, 1974, one of the…